Abercrombie is Gay?
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People used to say the same thing about Gap clothing back when it was extremely popular. You may remember the old joke that GAP was an acronym for Gay And Proud. I never paid attention to it back then. If I liked something at the Gap, I would buy it and wear it. I've never been one to care what other people say and think.
That isn't a stereotype for gay. That is a stereotype for dumb as hell.
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LMAO.....aint that the truth!! Yea I own some A&F stuff but when i see men my age decked from head to toe in A&F/Hollister...complete with the backwards baseball cap, i want to take them aside and kindly suggest the just give it up. :biggrin1:
I think the 'gay' lable is rooted in the hypersexual, homoerotic marketing campaign that Abercrombie embraced about ten years ago to keep them out of bankrupcy. As i have said before...one of the effects of gender equality is that young heterosexual men are held to the same objectification standards women (and gay men) have been held to for generations. This makes allot of folks squeemish.
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Over here, Abercrombie is just known as 'Gap in Gay Nightclub'.
The Saville Row shops stinks of cheap perfume and a heap of dumb tourists...and yes agree, it's definitely got a limited shelf life, still wearing college clothes when you long past hung up your haversack is sartorial suicide.
The Saville Row shops stinks of cheap perfume and a heap of dumb tourists...and yes agree, it's definitely got a limited shelf life, still wearing college clothes when you long past hung up your haversack is sartorial suicide.
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I have to admit, that's what I was wondering too. I have never, ever in my life asked another man what he was wearing and I don't think I've ever been asked either.
Not sure if its entirely gay...but all my gay friends like it though...mmmm, nevermind wut ppl say lol, I always catch shit for always wearing christian audigier shirts so go figure, I just blow it off cuz most ppl around here wont/cant spend 200 on a tshirt...soooo just blow it off
For your history lesson:
Abercrombie & Fitch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I actually remember shopping in the Georgetown store, when it was A&F "Classic", and it was still a traditional "outfitter". I was a bit surprised to see one pop up in L.A. several years later, with it's "new", ironically faux-vintage, look. :tongue:
For your hilarious aside:
"The whole thing just smacked of desperate corporate promotion of an ideal that only exists in the pages of a catalog. It felt contrived and ridiculous. As ridiculous as Abercrombie's youth-obsessed current branding founder, Michael S. Jeffries, a 60 year old man who dyes his hair beach boy blond and wears shorts or torn jeans with flip flops to work no matter what the weather. In Ohio."
SOURCE: Manhattan Chowder (goes to Washington): June 2008
For your entertainment:
YouTube - mad tv abercrombie
For your hearsay moment:
Several years ago, a friend from work was relating a "you'll never believe who I met this weekend!" moment. Apparently, an incredibly hot 20-something, invited him to "hang out" with the 20-something's "friend", for some all-expenses-paid fun, poolside, at a Hollywood hotel. This "friend" was a really nice, very wealthy "older" man.
"How much older?", I asked.
"Much. Like in his 50s", I was told.
"Hmm... With a 20 year old 'friend'?"
"The guy's crazy rich."
"Oh, so you CAN buy 'love'. Ha-ha. So how'd he make his money?"
"Well, ok, he's actually the owner of A&F."
Abercrombie & Fitch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I actually remember shopping in the Georgetown store, when it was A&F "Classic", and it was still a traditional "outfitter". I was a bit surprised to see one pop up in L.A. several years later, with it's "new", ironically faux-vintage, look. :tongue:
For your hilarious aside:
"The whole thing just smacked of desperate corporate promotion of an ideal that only exists in the pages of a catalog. It felt contrived and ridiculous. As ridiculous as Abercrombie's youth-obsessed current branding founder, Michael S. Jeffries, a 60 year old man who dyes his hair beach boy blond and wears shorts or torn jeans with flip flops to work no matter what the weather. In Ohio."
SOURCE: Manhattan Chowder (goes to Washington): June 2008
For your entertainment:
YouTube - mad tv abercrombie
For your hearsay moment:
Several years ago, a friend from work was relating a "you'll never believe who I met this weekend!" moment. Apparently, an incredibly hot 20-something, invited him to "hang out" with the 20-something's "friend", for some all-expenses-paid fun, poolside, at a Hollywood hotel. This "friend" was a really nice, very wealthy "older" man.
"How much older?", I asked.
"Much. Like in his 50s", I was told.
"Hmm... With a 20 year old 'friend'?"
"The guy's crazy rich."
"Oh, so you CAN buy 'love'. Ha-ha. So how'd he make his money?"
"Well, ok, he's actually the owner of A&F."
While I think the style is not particularly gay the label is a "gay uniform"
a sweat or t-shirt with AF on the front is not stylish it is dull and uninspired !
I would not be seen dead in anything from there in London it is overpriced,
and common.
Mixing vintage, with high street is much more cool in my opinion.
a sweat or t-shirt with AF on the front is not stylish it is dull and uninspired !
I would not be seen dead in anything from there in London it is overpriced,
and common.
Mixing vintage, with high street is much more cool in my opinion.
A man who knows big words, and has a hot body on LPSG? What are the odss?
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...I should imagine the same as the odds on finding a man that can correctly spell odds, my dear?!?!
Sorry, I was on my way out like a light. Nap time comes on me suddenly. Just for the sass, you cannot kiss my ass.
Ambercrombie stuff is gay advertizing. It's a pity that it's even an issue, but it is.
OMG!!! :rant:
I just went to Aberzombie and Bitch on 5th Ave today with Nick8 ('twas I that wanted to go, not him...) and I have no opinion on whether or not it was gay, but I did not enjoy the experience!!! :banghead2:
For starters, I had to queue to get in the bloody place!
Then I was welcomed into the shop by a dancing young man asking me 'what's going on?'
The music was really loud (yeah I know... I'm beginning to sound like my mother)
The assistants were blooming clueless with regards to actually being able to help you
Despite that each and everyone of them greeted us with 'what's going on'
And it was all Nick8 could do to stop me going back in there after we'd left to respond to the 'what's going on' with some gruesome bowel or VD detail! :lmao: (I wish I'd thought of it while I was in there but I was too irked with the awful service)
And I didn't even notice the dishy posters on the walls! :crying:
This brit isn't at all impressed with A&F! :12: :tongue:
I just went to Aberzombie and Bitch on 5th Ave today with Nick8 ('twas I that wanted to go, not him...) and I have no opinion on whether or not it was gay, but I did not enjoy the experience!!! :banghead2:
For starters, I had to queue to get in the bloody place!
Then I was welcomed into the shop by a dancing young man asking me 'what's going on?'
The music was really loud (yeah I know... I'm beginning to sound like my mother
)The assistants were blooming clueless with regards to actually being able to help you
Despite that each and everyone of them greeted us with 'what's going on'
And it was all Nick8 could do to stop me going back in there after we'd left to respond to the 'what's going on' with some gruesome bowel or VD detail! :lmao: (I wish I'd thought of it while I was in there but I was too irked with the awful service
)And I didn't even notice the dishy posters on the walls! :crying:
This brit isn't at all impressed with A&F! :12: :tongue:
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Oh Doll did you buy anything? It's then at the point of sale that they ask you for your birthday... and I tried giving month and day...BUT NOOOOOOOOO they want to know the year you were born or they can't continue with the sale. I walked out!OMG!!! :rant:
I just went to Aberzombie and Bitch on 5th Ave today with Nick8 ('twas I that wanted to go, not him...) and I have no opinion on whether or not it was gay, but I did not enjoy the experience!!! :banghead2:
For starters, I had to queue to get in the bloody place!
Then I was welcomed into the shop by a dancing young man asking me 'what's going on?'
The music was really loud (yeah I know... I'm beginning to sound like my mother
The assistants were blooming clueless with regards to actually being able to help you
Despite that each and everyone of them greeted us with 'what's going on'
And it was all Nick8 could do to stop me going back in there after we'd left to respond to the 'what's going on' with some gruesome bowel or VD detail! :lmao: (I wish I'd thought of it while I was in there but I was too irked with the awful service
And I didn't even notice the dishy posters on the walls! :crying:
This brit isn't at all impressed with A&F! :12: :tongue:
Hey, hi there, how are ya, what's happenin', what's goin' on, dance, dance, dance, hey, hi there, how are ya, what's happenin', what's goin' on, dance, dance, dance...all in darkness you need a seeing eye dog to find your way though with thumping base jolting your bones, hey, hi there, how are ya, what's happenin', what's going on, dance, dance, dance...
I loved it. But I'm gay. I bought a muscle polo in chinese red.
I loved it. But I'm gay. I bought a muscle polo in chinese red.
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